0:00 GLB’s Advice To Be Persistent With Your Argument (Shoot The Bear Again)
0:26 Gary DeMar’s Analogy Of Your Apologetic Argument Being The Superior Weapon That You Shouldn’t Give Up! (Stick To Your Gun)
2:23 Van Til’s: The Unbeliever As The Child On Their Father’s Lap…Only The Christian Worldview Makes Sense Of The Preconditions Of Intelligibility (Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Ethics)
3:29 The Idea Of Neutrality In Education Is A Myth: It’s Unavoidable When You’re Going To Educate People, That You’re Taking A Religious Stand On Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Ethics
4:20 The Supreme Court’s Prohibition Of Prayer & Bible Reading In Public Schools…GLB’s Desire For Public Schools To Go Into Nonexistence
5:26 The Ignorant Educational Shift From A Christian Context To Secular Under The Impression That The Removal Of Religion Will Make A Neutral Arena That’s Fair To All Religious Backgrounds
5:54 GLB Takes To Task The Ill-Conceived Secular Shift In Public Schools & Begins To Demonstrate How It Ironically Only Raises The Religious Question In A Different & More Acute Form
6:52 Education Is Inherently Religious
8:32 A Religion Of Secular Humanism Is Clearly Established In The Public School. And It’s Established Because It’s Required Of Public School Teachers That They Exclude GOD From What They’re Teaching. It’s Required That Any Interpretation Or Explanation That’s Offered For Events In Human Life Or History Is To Be Naturalistic In Its Character
9:36 Secular Humanism Is Established In Public Schools Because All Values Are Relativised & No Contrary Worldview Is Allowed To Be Presented When It Comes To Matters Of Reality & Ethics…
9:49 eg “Honesty Is The Best Policy”
10:06 eg “Good” Citizens
10:34 The Public School, Therefore, Implicitly Teaches That Man Must Be The Measure Of All Things (MMBTMOAT)
11:06 Supreme Court Justice Brennan’s Advocacy For MMBTMOAT…Contrasts Public Secular Education With Sectarian Education…Demonstrates Again, How Secular Education, Ironically, Only Raises The Religious Question In A Different & More Acute Form
11:52 GLB Reduces To Absurdity, The Concept Of MMBTMOAT By Showing It Allows For Someone Like, Idi Amin Dado Oumee (Ugandan Dictator), Determining What’s Right & Wrong Within A Culture …(Note: Checklist For GLB’s Tactic)
12:20 The Transition Of The Religious Context Of Public Education From Christianity To Secularism Was Not A Supreme Court Conspiracy But Was Due To The Spirit Of Our Time (The Mindset Which Says Religion—GOD—Is Just Simply Irrelevant To Academically Doing Science, Math, Philosophy, Literature, History, etc.)
13:28 The Spirit Of Our Times Tells Us We’re Perfectly Able To Understand Much Of Life Without Reference To GOD…Religion Is Always The Icing On The Cake
14:47 The Consequence Of The Court’s Actions Seen With Justice Potter Stewart’s Dissent: Abington v. Schempp “A refusal to permit religious exercises thus is seen, not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism, or at the least, as government support of the beliefs of those who think that religious exercises should be conducted only in private.”
15:23 Partial Summary – Education Is Inherently Religious Because It Calls You To Ask What Are The Preconditions (The Presuppositions About Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Ethics) That Make What You’re Teaching Intelligible…& As A Result, This Exercise Points Directly To The Christian Worldview
16:07 Despite Attempting To Make A Neutral Area For Education, The Supreme Court Decision Resulted In The Religious Worldview Monopoly Of Secular Humanism
17:26 If Public Education Could Truly Be Made Neutral, It Would No Longer Be Educational…GLB Expands…C.S. Lewis Quote From THE ABOLITION OF MAN
19:56 GLB Recaps/Reiterates No Religious Neutrality In Education
21:59 Five Questions Everyone Who Teaches Or Who’s Involved On A School Board Has To Answer…Observe The Nature Of The Questions & See If The Answers Are Possible Without Being Religious:
22:13 1) WHAT IS MAN?
23:28 2) WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
24:08 3) WHAT IS MAN’S GOAL & PURPOSE?
24:56 4) WHY SHOULD WE EDUCATE?
25:56 5) HOW DO YOU EDUCATE? WHAT KIND OF DISCIPLINE DO YOU USE?
26:45 Every Aforementioned Question Is Essential To Engaging In Education & Requires A Commitment To A Worldview In Order To Answer…Reiterates No Religious Neutrality In Education
27:21 John 17:17 “Sanctify Them By THE TRUTH; THY WORD IS TRUTH.”
29:14 John 8:32 “And Ye Shall Know THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH shall make you free.”…GLB Comments How People Try To Generalize & Abstract The Point JESUS Was Making So That HE’s Excluded…People Have Done The Same Thing In The Educational System
31:36 SUMMARY
32:22 PREVIEW
Apologetics is useless if it is only a great theory discussed by scholars. Dr. Bahnsen demonstrates how all believers-including you-are able to defend the faith “outside the classroom” in response to any person who challenges the truth of Scripture. (TBI)
- Taking It To The Streets (1 of 8) Worldviews in Collision, Part 1
- Taking It To The Streets (2 of 8) Worldviews in Collision, Part 2
- Taking It To The Streets (3 of 8) Atheists And Other Fools
- Taking It To The Streets (4 of 8) Evolution—No More Monkey Business, Part 1
- Taking It To The Streets (5 of 8) Evolution—No More Monkey Business, Part 2
- Taking It To The Streets (6 of 8) How to Deal with Your Obstinate Brother-in-law
- Taking It To The Streets (7 of 8) The Myth of Neutrality and Christian Education
- Taking It To The Streets (8 of 8) Q and A
